Local Baseball: Dawgs hand Lower Cape first loss

Friday

Ronan Chisholm’s single up the middle in the bottom of the seventh helped the Dugout Dawgs hand Lower Cape its first loss of the season, 9-8, at Barnstable High School in Hyannis.

Lower Cape (4-1) battled back with three runs in the top of the sixth to tie the game at 8-all before Chisholm’s game-winning hit.

The Dugout Dawgs (3-1) scored three runs in the first, two more in the second and third and added a single run in the fifth.

Chisholm had two hits in the game while Owen Wilcox also had two, including a triple.

Kevin Craig pitched six innings for the Dawgs before Mac LaBarge earned the win in the ninth.

Nathan Amaker had three hits for Lower Cape.

Barnstable 9, Mashpee 3: John Bent and Riley Fusaro combined to hold Mashpee to three runs while several Barnstable bats led the way to victory in Mashpee.

Bent allowed three runs over 4⅔ innings for Barnstable (3-2-2) before Fusaro finished the final 2⅓ without allowing a run.

Joe Antosca went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI for Barnstable while Sean Corbett went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and Scott Sawyer went 3-for-4 with a walk and an RBI to round out the top of Barnstable’s batting order.